*JOB* My group at @gesis.org has an open position: we are looking for a candidate to support the expansion of our Trusted Research Environment for providing access to sensitive research data: gesis.jobs.personio.de/job/2707934?...

Research Infrastructure Specialist (Postdoc) for Trusted Research Environments (DSS-26) | Jobs at GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften

GESIS is one of the world's leading social science infrastructure facilities, supporting researchers at all levels of their research projects with expertise and infrastructure services. We help ensure...

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I was not reviewer 2. But I am so annoyed by Americans pretending the whole open science movement is funded by John Arnold. His investments are absolutely dwarfed by what the European Union and European science funders have invested in Open science. Only incredibly biased people would ignore this.

Jeff Lockhart@jwlockhart.bsky.social · 5d ago

I wrote about science funding, science reform, and anti-science agendas. scatter.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/s...

I wrote about science funding, science reform, and anti-science agendas. scatter.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/s...

science funding and the cherry picking problem

Science publishing–like all of science–requires money. There’s no getting around it, even with the open science movement. What appears free to many authors and readers still requires money and infr…

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arXiv has spun out as an independent non-profit like openRxiv. Today they announce their new CEO and founding Board blog.arxiv.org/2026/07/30/a...

arXiv welcomes inaugural CEO and founding Board of Directors

arXiv welcomes inaugural CEO and founding Board of Directors

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#RIDLOP #Wissenschaftsrat #ResearchInfrastructure The German Science and Humanities Council (Wissenschaftsrat) supports the implementation of RIDLOP, the Research Infrastructure for Data from Large Online Platforms, in its statement published today.

The University of Graz invites applications for a full professorship in Data Analysis, with a focus on Natural Language Processing! For details, see ▶️ job ad jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/f38f... ▶️ fact sheet cloud.uni-graz.at/s/RA92YSf29z...

UKRI are recruiting for a new Exec Chair for Research England (£160k-£170k). It is a crucial role including QR funding and the REF. I hope they get a great field. But I worry a bit. It's hard to find on their website (see link below) fa-evzn-saasfaukgovprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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We have re-opened our search for a 3-year AI-research postdoc at NYU's Center for Social Media, AI, and Politics!! The position starts this **September 1st** (or as soon as possible thereafter) and is in person at NYU. If necessary, we will also consider a 1/1/27 start. 1/3

📢 Job vacancy - Chair in Intellectual History We welcome applications from scholars working across a broad range of fields, including: 💠 History of political theory, political economy 💠 Knowledge systems and IT 💠 Postcolonial and intersectional thought 💠 Humanist, post-human, and planetary history

Improving science literacy requires teaching people how science actually works: that it's fallible, self-correcting, and how it's funded. This paper argues that strategy is more helpful rather than just teaching more scientific facts. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Great to have a bit of time to polish the personal website, and update the CV. Here is the updated intro: I am Aliakbar Akbaritabar (Ali), Assistant Professor of Computational Social Science at the University of Rostock and Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.

Today we announce a next step in our transition to open research information: CWTS will discontinue the use of Web of Science data, both in the Leiden Ranking and in the services that we offer to external organisations. Read more on our website 👉 edu.nl/vnepv @barcelonadori.bsky.social

📣 New 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫 opportunity at CWTS to conduct original research on how Public Engagement Activities (PEAs) can be better recognised and monitored within #OpenScience. The project is funded by @opensciencenl.bsky.social 🔗 Apply here until 𝟳 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 👉️ careers.universiteitleiden.nl

Want to do a PhD to work on models of opinion dynamics and the inequalities of information flow, with an emphasis on climate change and climate policy? Apply by October 15 to work with Ago Merico and myself, based at @leibniz-zmt.de in Bremen, Germany. www.leibniz-zmt.de/en/vacancies...

Doctoral candidate (gn) - WG Systems Ecology

Das Leibniz-Zentrum für Marine Tropenforschung (ZMT) erforscht tropische und subtropische Küstenökosysteme und ihre Bedeutung für Natur und Menschen erforscht.

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Are you a sociologist studying social inequality? Come join our awesome sociology department at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social as an assistant professor www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Assistant Professor in Social Inequality

Are you an expert in the sociology of social inequality or social stratification? Do you want to inspire students? Become our new assistant professor!

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𝐀𝐰𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐜 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐝𝐬 list is live since a few weeks! Access and share it with others: opensciencedemography.github.io/awesome-demo... Several colleagues generously added their suggestions (Thanks). You can contribute to it by adding new items here github.com/OpenScienceD...

We're hiring! Open area search for assistant professor of sociology at UC Berkeley. Come be our colleague! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05416

Assistant Professor - Open Field - Sociology

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.

Do citation counts really capture all citations of a document? In our 🆕 blog post, Paul Donner shows the different ways in which citation counts can vary and proposes a more nuanced way of presenting them: 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭 𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬. Read it here 👉️ www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/the...

The case for citation count ranges

Citation counts have a prominent role in bibliometrics, but do they really represent all citations of a document? Paul Donner shows the different ways in which citation counts can vary and proposes a ...

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The @ec.europa.eu accepts X's measures to terminate breaches of the DSA The plan, which needs implementation monitoring, includes many points One is particularly important for research: 🎯Provide eligible researchers with access to data free-of-charge digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/comm...

Interesting and relevant perspective by Andy Stirling. Illuminating neglected uncertainties. How metascience can help rather than hinder democracy. researchonresearchinstitute.substack.com/p/illuminati...

Illuminating neglected uncertainties

How metascience can help rather than hinder democracy

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We're hiring. Associate/Full Professor of Democracy Policy apply.interfolio.com/188470

Our Coalition sued Marco Rubio, and the court is agreeing with us. Today, Judge Boasberg stayed a Trump admin policy to deny revoke the visas of technology researchers, fact-checkers and trust and safety workers. knightcolumbia.org/content/fede...

Federal Court Suspends Trump Immigration Policy Targeting Technology Researchers

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We are hiring an assistant professor in Metascience! Join our lovely department of Human-Technology Interaction, with a very active Metascience group, at Eindhoven University of Technology. Apply here before August 14, or share the vacancy in your network! www.tue.nl/en/working-a...

Assistant Professor in Metascience

Personal type: Scientific staff

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Breaking: A federal court has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from enforcing an immigration policy targeting noncitizen researchers, advocates, fact-checkers, and trust and safety workers based on their work. knightcolumbia.org/content/fede...

Federal Court Suspends Trump Immigration Policy Targeting Technology Researchers

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Big win: research vs Rubio Federal Court Suspends Trump Immigration Policy Targeting Technology Researchers Court finds policy likely violates the First Amendment by targeting protected research and advocacy based on viewpoint Thanks to all fighting this fight knightcolumbia.org/content/fede...

Federal Court Suspends Trump Immigration Policy Targeting Technology Researchers

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At CWTS, we see scholarly publishing as a collective responsibility. In our Scholarly Communication Policy, @inter-apero-bility.bsky.social, @ludowaltman.bsky.social & Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner reflect on this and aim to encourage other institutions to implement a similar approach. Read it here 👇

Scholarly communication as a collective responsibility

CWTS has developed a Scholarly Communication Policy that treats publishing as a collective responsibility rather than an individual choice. In this blog post, we introduce the policy, reflect on its c...

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Been thinking a lot about the students in this class (presumably, but not certainly) using AI on a take-home midterm and then bombing the in-class final. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... But I think the real story here is not *that* students use AI, it's (part of) *why* students use AI. 🧵

Brown Professor Suspects Most of His Class Used AI to Cheat

Brown University leaders’ response to the alleged cheating incident has been “meek,” the professor said.

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We are now looking for a PhD researcher to join the project and our team Survey Data Augmentation @gesis.org. Requires an interest in democratic innovations, ability to field surveys, and German language skills. Details and application: gesis.jobs.personio.de/job/2709202?... Deadline: 29 July 2026

Researcher in Political Science (SDC-29) | Jobs bei GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften

GESIS ist eine der weltweit führenden Infrastruktureinrichtungen für die Sozialwissenschaften und steht Forscher*innen mit Expertise und Infrastrukturangeboten auf allen Ebenen ihrer Forschungsprojekt...

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Sebastian Ziaja@sziaja.bsky.social · 4w ago

Do deliberative mini-publics generate positive spill-over effects for the democratic resilience of the wider population? We will investigate this at @gesis.org with three field experiments in collaboration with @offenegesellschaft.bsky.social and @acmay.bsky.social (@mzesunimannheim.bsky.social).

Caroline S. Wagner was a highly regarded scholar in the field of science and technology policy. In his obituary, Paul Wouters reflects on her impressive contributions to research on science policy, the globalization of research, international collaboration, and scientometrics.

In memoriam Caroline S. Wagner

Caroline S. Wagner (1955-2026) was a highly regarded scholar in the field of science and technology policy. Paul Wouters reflects on her impressive contributions to research on science policy, the glo...

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